Carlos Segers (1900-1967) was an

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. He was an observer of

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s, and organized amateur astronomers in South America. He founded the ' Argentine Friends of Astronomy Association'. The crater

Segers Segers is a Dutch patronymic surname. The mostly archaic Dutch given names Seger, Segher, Sieger and Zegher derive from Germanic Sigi- and -her, meaning "victorious lord".

on the

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is named after him.

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* 1900 births 1967 deaths Segers, Carlos Argentine people of German descent {{astronomer-stub

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